Genius

Creative ability of an exceptional character. Such a definition would include much of what is ordinarily designated as talent, i.e., any mental endowment rising above the average. It is impo ible in the present stage of psychological analysis to draw a line of distinction between these degrees degrees of exceptional ability. Various is psychological psycho log peculiarities, e.g., unusual power of concentration of attention, of a ociation by similarity, etc., have been a igned as distinctive of genius, but none of the explanations thus far offered are free from serious objection. A school of thinkers has lately come into prominence which holds that genius is akin to, if not actually a mark of, nervous degeneration in one form or another; a proposition now being actively discu ed.